Senior Risk Manager

Inside Holdings; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jora New Zealand is seeking a Senior Manager Risk to work across the organisation, supporting effective enterprise risk management. You will partner with senior leaders to identify, assess, monitor and report key risks, contributing to governance reporting and improving risk frameworks to aid better business decisions.

The role covers commercial, operational, regulatory, supplier, technology, project, financial, reputational and resilience risks, with success measured by enhanced risk

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise risk, risk governance or risk and compliance.
• Ability to operate credibly with senior stakeholders; practical and grounded.
• Experience in large, complex or highly governed organisations.

Responsibilities

• Providing practical enterprise risk advice to senior leaders
• Supporting senior management and governance-level risk reporting
• Helping identify, assess and monitor key and emerging risks
• Supporting the use of risk appetite and tolerance in decision-making
• Maintaining and improving risk frameworks, policies and processes
• Working across multiple business functions to build a joined-up view of risk
• Bringing constructive challenge and fresh thinking to an established risk environment
• Location: Auckland is preferred; other NZ locations considered

Skills

Enterprise risk

Governance

Stakeholder management

Communication

Job description

Jora New Zealand will close on 16th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

• Senior enterprise risk role with broad organisational visibility
• Work with senior leaders on complex, business-critical risks
• Auckland preferred, other New Zealand locations considered

• Senior enterprise risk role with broad organisational visibility
• Work with senior leaders on complex, business-critical risks
• Auckland preferred, other New Zealand locations considered

This is a senior enterprise risk role for someone who wants their work to be close to real business decisions.

You’ll be joining a large, complex New Zealand organisation with an established approach to risk management already in place. The foundations are strong, the work is visible, and the opportunity is to bring fresh thinking, sound judgement and practical challenge to an environment that is ready for the next layer of maturity.

This is not a role for someone who wants to simply maintain a risk register. It will suit someone who enjoys working with senior people, asking good questions, making sense of ambiguity, and turning complex issues into clear, useful insight.

About the role

As Senior Manager Risk, you will work across the organisation to support effective enterprise risk management.

You will partner with senior leaders to help identify, assess, monitor and report key risks. You will contribute to senior management and governance-level reporting, support the ongoing improvement of risk frameworks and processes, and help leaders make better-informed decisions.

The role works across a broad range of risk areas. These may include commercial, operational, regulatory, supplier, technology, project, financial, reputational and resilience-related risks.

You will not personally own every risk across the organisation. Your role is to help ensure the right risks are visible, well understood, appropriately owned, actively managed and clearly reported.

This is an influential role in a matrix environment, where outcomes are delivered through others. Success will come through credibility, relationships, judgement and the ability to bring people with you.

What success looks like

After 12 months, you will be known as someone who has lifted the quality of risk conversations across the organisation.

You will have built trust with senior leaders, improved the clarity of risk reporting, and helped connect risks that may otherwise have sat in separate parts of the business.

You will have brought useful challenge to an established risk environment, without trying to change things for the sake of it.

You will have helped make enterprise risk more practical, more visible and more useful to decision-making.

That is the heart of this role: making sure risk is not just reported, but understood.

What you’ll be doing

• Providing practical enterprise risk advice to senior leaders
• Supporting senior management and governance-level risk reporting
• Helping identify, assess and monitor key and emerging risks
• Supporting the use of risk appetite and tolerance in decision-making
• Maintaining and improving risk frameworks, policies and processes
• Working across multiple business functions to build a joined-up view of risk
• Helping lift risk capability through guidance, facilitation and coaching
• Bringing constructive challenge and fresh thinking to an established risk environment

About you

You will be an experienced enterprise risk professional who can operate credibly with senior stakeholders while staying practical and grounded.

You may currently be in a role such as Senior Risk Manager, Enterprise Risk Manager, Risk Governance Manager, Principal Risk Advisor, Risk and Compliance Manager, Head of Risk and Assurance, or a comparable senior risk role.

• Strong experience in enterprise risk, risk governance or risk and compliance
• Experience working in a large, complex or highly governed organisation
• A practical understanding of enterprise risk frameworks
• Experience contributing to senior management, executive or governance-level reporting
• Exposure to risk appetite, risk tolerance, key risk and emerging risk processes
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• The ability to simplify complex issues and communicate clearly
• Sound judgement, curiosity and commercial awareness
• Confidence to challenge constructively
• A continuous improvement mindset

Experience from large corporate, infrastructure, utilities, telecommunications, financial services, insurance, banking, government, Crown entity, listed company or other complex environments would be relevant.

The right person will be thoughtful, credible and commercially aware. You will be comfortable working with ambiguity, confident enough to challenge, and pragmatic enough to bring people with you.

This role will suit someone who wants enterprise risk to be useful, visible and connected to real business decisions.

Location

Auckland is preferred, although candidates from other New Zealand locations may be considered where there is strong alignment to the role.

Suitable candidates will be contacted and provided with further information about the organisation, role and process.